Slowdown heading towards the veterans expressway westbound on hillsborough avenue. Not sure if its from the crash or not but you might want to give yourself extra time if youre heading to the veterans expressway. Your drive on 275 looking pretty good, still. Still in the green, 13 minutes from the apex to i4 and down there at the bottom if your starting in downtown its going to take you just five mince to get to the five minutes to get to the Howard Frankland. As you wake up this morning a dangerous carjacking suspect is on the loose in office sending out a major warning. Abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan is live at the scene of the crime outside of bone fish grill on pitkin road. Is the victim in the carjacking doing all right . Reporter thankfully shes ok but this all could have turned out a lot worse. This all happened after closing time early sunday morning. Apparently this guy walked up to the woman as she was sitting in her car, a toyota avalon. Had a chain around his hand
For the third time in three day, a law fo in the bay area is almost hit. Thanks so much for joining us this sunday night. It has been a very dangerous weekend for Law Enforcement officers. Saturday night a Hillary Deputy was nearly Hillsboro Deputy wasser in are lie hit pay drunk driver. Another troopers car was hit on a bridge. The driver in this latest case is being held. Reporter Alfredo Rodriguez jimenez is being held here on a dui with property damage. And this is just the latest in a string of close calls for Law Enforcement officers this weekend. Any Law Enforcement officer will tell you theres no such thing as a routine traffic stop. A number of incidents this weekend prove thats true. Saturday night, a Hillsboro Deputy pull over a car on 15th street north of pickup truck rearends that car, pushing it into the got as cruiser. The deputy it was not injured, but the driver is arrested on the scene and charged with driving under the influence. Hours early we are be be a st. Paul P
Anjuli how about the storms go around you. We saw storms yesterday but not as many. Today we lower the rain chance, but they start in the same spot in the coastal areas and shift inland. Because of that light wind, doesnt it feel a little extra steamy . 80 degrees, 79 in sar society and upper 70 inland. While we may see one for two coastal showers, no signs of rain this morning. Drier a with High Pressure in control and light onshore wind, by late morning and midday we see a couple of showers near the coast and slowly build to storms and shift inland this afternoon. Coverage overall is 20 at tampa and 10 at the beach and 30 inland. We will hit 91 today and a little above average. We have three areas we track. I have the latest models and update in your tropical update coming up. Anjuli developing sending a imagine to the hospital with a brutal injury. They say a man knocked on a homeowners door at an permit complex on English Hills court off of north 58th street. The homeowner called 9
Extra steamy because the winds are light. With it the rain starts earlier near the coast. Its very isolated today. Good boating ft bay today. Lets go to the beach where a few people are out there enjoying a nice stroll in Bradenton Beach and a couple clouds in the distance but no rain in the distance this morning. The temperatures went up this hour. The warm spot is tampa at 82. Humidi so with the temperature and that moisture, it feels now like 89 at 8 00 a. M. Here in tampa. A lot of sun and a couple of clouds near the coast. Its the light, onshore wind that triggers the sea breeze late morning. As we spell out the day, by noon and by 11 00 a. M. Some rain in the coastal counties. Its only 20 , so i keep it partly cloudy. Storms. Slim rain chances today and tomorrow, but by midweek its back to reality and by midweek we have a couple of areas to watch closely in the tropics. Ill have a full update on the atlantic coming up. Anjuli a shooting near the usf campus sends a man to the hosp
New this morning in Pinellas County a condo catches fire. Thankfully, the . Owner wasnt inside. It happened just after midnight at the meadow lake condos. The fire started in a unit on the third floor. When firefighters arrived they saw flames shooting through the roof. They still managed to keep the fire contained to just that unit. The person who lives there was . Not home, but officials did give them a call, so they spend the night. No word yet on the cause. Developing in Manatee County this morning the search for an escapee. Deputies are searching for a man who managed to climb out of their car. While he was still handcuffed deputies say it all happened in a matter of minutes on saturday night. 34yearold Joel Canchola was arrested just a few blocks away from the manatee sheriffs headquarters. While the deputies were talking, canchola managed to escape through the patrol cars back window. While his hands were still cuffed behind his back. Spokesperson would not confirm whether the s